Tas. 7709. 
ANTHOLYZA SoHWEINFURTHII. 
Native of Abyssinia. 
Nat. Ord. IntpEa.—Tribe Ixrex, 
Genus Antuotyza, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 710.) 
AntTHOLYZA Schweinfurthii; cormo globoso mediocri, caule folioso, foliis 
5-6 alternis pedalibus ensiformibus ad # poll. latis acuminatis plicatis 
nervosis, spica laxiflora decurva, spathis exterioribus erectis angustis 
acuminatis scariosis convolutis inferioribus 1-2 pollicaribus rubro tinctis, 
superioribus brevioribus inflatis acutis, spathis interioribus tubo 
perianthii paulo longioribus ovato-lanceolatis, floribus spathas longe 
superantibus, perianthii 13-pollicaris angusti decurvi coccinei basi aurei 
tubo brevi limbo dilatato subgibboso breviore et angustiore ore valde 
obliquo 6-fido, lobo dorsali ovato-oblongo obtuso galeato dimidium 
rianthii squante, lobis 4 lateralibus dorsali terquaterve brevioribus 
ineari-oblongis subacutis, lobo antico minimo, staminibus styloque 
perianthio zquilongis, stylo gracili apice tricruri, cruribus recurvis, 
stigmatibus capitatis. 
A. Schweinfurthii, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. i. p. 588; in Fl. Trop. 
Afr. vol. vii. p. 375, 
Antholyza is a wholly African genus, extending from the 
Cape of Good Hope to Abyssinia, but found only at con- 
siderable elevations in the tropical zone. A. Schweinfurthit 
is the most northern species hitherto discovered. It in- 
habits the mountains of Erytrea (Italian Abyssinia) at 
three thousand to six thousand five hundred feet elevation. 
Only three species (of nearly thirty described) have been, 
before the present, figured in this magazine, namely, A. 
ethiopica, L., t. 561, and its variety B, t. 1172; A. quad- 
rangularis, Burm., t. 567 (Gladiolus); A. Watsonioides, 
Baker, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 376 (@. Watsonioides, 
Baker, Bot. Mag. t. 6919); for A. Meriana, L., t. 418, is a 
Watsonia, and A. Merianella, L., t. 441, is a Gladiolus. 
A. Schweinfurthit flowered in a greenhouse in the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, in May, 1899. The bulbs were purchased 
from Messrs. Dammann & Co., of Naples, in 1884. 
Descr.—Corm globose, an inch to an inch and a half in 
diameter. Stem about two feet high, slender, leafy. 
Leaves five or six, alternate, narrowly ensiform, acuminate, 
_ Apgin Ist, 1900, 
“Semana 
